Jeff Merkley

Jeff Merkley (24 October 1956-) was a US Senator from Oregon (D) from 3 January 2009, succeeding Gordon Smith.

Biography
Jeff Merkley was born in Myrtle Creek, Oregon on 24 October 1956, and he graduated from Stanford University and Princeton University. He worked as a nonprofit director, a Congressional Budget Office analyst, and for the Deparment of Defense, and he served in the State House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009 as a Democratic Party politician. In 2009, he was elected to the US Senate, and he was known as a progressive voice, becoming the only other US Senator to endorse Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries.